The all-volunteer force since Vietnam takes the entirety of war fighting and decision-making “and drastically pushes it behind a social veil, where 1 percent or 2 percent of the population are doing the war fighting.” By Vietnam, differing operation tempos affected how troops were deployed. “If this town were to deploy in WWI, the entire town would have together and come back and spent the entirety of our lives sorting through what it was that we just did.”īy WWII, families like the Sullivans, who lost all five sons, who had insisted on serving on the same ship, when that ship was sunk in action, led to a policy of separating family members or residents of the same town in service. “This book is an attempt to walk a tightrope,” Robillard said of the widening civilian/military divide. He said the first risks sounding like a broken victim or a person condemning one’s own country, military or comrades in arms, or risking conflating patriotism with enthusiastic, uncritical endorsement of all things military and all things war.Īmerican Legion Post 22 on June 29 hosted a book discussion with Robillard, who wrote a book titled “Outsourcing Duty: The Moral Exploitation of the American Soldier,” with Bradley J. “As a veteran, how can one voice an opinion on the military and its policies without falling victim to the binary, of sounding either like a pacifistic victim or a war-hawk shill?” “It’s a paradox that I want to acknowledge – the veterans’ paradox,” author Michael J. Seelye, Express – The wounds of war can go beyond the ones that bleed, to the invisible pain of moral and psychological scars. National Grid and Hingham Municipal Lighting Plant were working to restore gas and electricity to the neighborhood after it had been shut off by the utility companies.įiled Under: More News Left, News Soldiers’ stories of crisisīy Tracy F. The Hingham Police Department controlled access to the site and aided in evacuating neighbors from the affected area. Several homes in the area were evacuated as a precaution due the fire embers spreading to nearby houses.Ībout 120 firefighters from nine of the communities, Hull, Cohasset, Norwell, Scituate, Rockland, Weymouth, Quincy, Braintree and Hanover Fire departments responded to the scene and the Whitman and Brockton Fire departments sent chiefs to provide assistance and Abington Fire Department provided station coverage for Hingham. when the initial fire started and all got out safely. At 1:30 p.m., Chief Murphy struck a fourth alarm as the fire continued to spread.Īrea residents were asked water down mulch beds on their properties.
Upon arrival, the house was fully involved and a third alarm was immediately called for. While responding to the scene, firefighters could see large amounts of smoke above the house and struck a second alarm. after receiving multiple calls about a home being on fire. Several homes in the area were evacuated as a precaution due the fire embers spreading to nearby houses.Īt approximately 12:50 p.m., Hingham Fire responded to 4 Mann St. While the 6,000-square-foot house was a total loss and other homes sustained damage. No injuries were reported in the fire that is under investigation by the Hingham Fire and Police departments and the State Police Fire & Explosion Investigation unit assigned to the State Fire Marshal’s office. The blaze had spread to at least four other homes in the area. HINGHAM - Whitman Fire Department was among 12 regional departments providing assistance from firefighters, chiefs and station coverage as they aided the Hingham Fire Department in battling a four-alarm fire at a large house Monday afternoon.
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